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Saturday, April 05, 2014

Ability & inability…consciously & unconsciously…

When I was in school, I never thought
that I would be public speaker & trainer. But when I started my professional life, I
thought I can do the same; even better than others who claim they are good. Do we
aware of our full ability? There are lot many things in life we do first time
and before doing that we never would have thought about those. When there
is any change in technology, people fear that it would be difficult to manage
that technology. There are lot of tasks which change over a period of time, you
struggle to adapt and then you do it professionally. You do it consciously.

There
are abilities and inabilities. We manage both consciously and unconsciously. Even you are not aware of those things. But if
you want to get the insight about yourselves, it is worth to learn…

Unconscious Inability: When we have never done any task, we are
unaware about our ability to do that task. You may think the certain task is
either difficult or easy, depending upon the perception. The person when decides
to learn the car, may think that driving the car is very easy.

Conscious Inability: But when the same person starts learning
the car, he starts thinking and then he understands that driving a car is
really difficult. He has to check where is the accelerator, where is the break
and where is the clutch. He also check
gears while changing the same. The first stage is to realize that you have to
learn something.

Conscious ability: When new driver starts learning and
understands that he can do it, he practices driving, but he also needs to focus
only on driving. He will not try to change the radio station while driving, his
focus is on steering wheel, accelerator, break, clutch and gear. He avoids distractions. He will not engage in
conversation while driving. Every time
the person has to keep in mind all these things.

Unconscious ability: After lot of practices the person becomes excellent driver.
Driving the car now is automatic. He does not need to focus anything. Changing
gears, speeding the car and breaking the car when hurdles are foreseen happens
automatically. Driver also engages in conversation, changes radio station and
also sees something countryside.

Unconscious ability & awareness: It is very surprising, when
you do things automatically and would like to remind the learning,. It goes
very hard to do that. If you are an expert driver and you are asked to follow
the stages of changing gears, speeding the vehicle and breaking when you are
thinking while doing.

This is the highest stage we can attained . The ability to
do the things while we reflect upon them is the utmost skill we can attain in
life.

When
you want to build the rapport with somebody, you think mirroring the person. You
keep the mind on it. This is conscious
ability.

But
when your mind is distracted, you stop mirroring, however over a period of time,
you mirror automatically without much thought. This is unconscious ability.

As
you develop further, you are able to thing to get the bigger picture and your thoughts
are free. Still you perform the task, (here mirroring), but you decide whether
it is right or wrong. This is unconscious ability with awareness.

How
can you do this? Off course by practising. Put some your personal examples in
it and enjoy the power of your conscious and unconscious mind.